Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 11217, Taiwan.
Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 11217, Taiwan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 5;18(13):7182. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18137182.
Little is known about family medicine academic workforce in Taiwan, and basic data on this may aid healthcare decision-makers and contribute to the limited literature. We analyzed data from 13 medical schools in Taiwan collected by the Taiwan Association of Family Medicine from June to September 2019, regarding characteristics of medical schools, and total staff, gender, age, degree, working title (adjunct/full-time), academic level, and subspecialty of each current family medicine faculty member. Total 13 medical schools in Taiwan with an undergraduate education program in family medicine, but only nine of the 13 medical schools had family medicine departments, while four still do not. A total of 116 family medicine faculty members ranging from 33-69 years. Of these, most were male ( = 85, 73.3%), with a mean age of 43.3 years. Most faculty members possessed a master's degree ( = 49, 42.2%), were academic lecturers ( = 49, 42.2%), were located in northern Taiwan ( = 79, 68.1%), and subspecialize in gerontology and geriatrics ( = 55, 47.4%) and hospice palliative care ( = 53, 45.7%). Additionally, most family medicine faculty in medical schools were adjunct faculty ( = 90, 77.6%), with only about one-fourth ( = 26, 22.4%) working full-time. Our study provides the most holistic census to date on academic family medicine faculty from all medical schools in Taiwan. The novel information can provide educational leaders, health policy managers, and decision-makers about the current developments of the family medicine departments in Taiwan's medical schools. The basic data will help formulate an effective medical school family medicine education plan and improve the establishment and development of the family medicine faculty workforce to help medical education and national health policy development in the future in Taiwan.
关于台湾家庭医学学术劳动力的信息知之甚少，而有关这方面的基本数据可能有助于医疗保健决策者，并为有限的文献做出贡献。我们分析了 2019 年 6 月至 9 月期间台湾家庭医学协会从台湾 13 所医学院收集的数据，这些数据涉及医学院的特征以及每位现任家庭医学教师的总员工人数、性别、年龄、学位、职称（兼职/全职）、学术水平和专业方向。台湾共有 13 所具有家庭医学本科教育课程的医学院，但只有 9 所医学院设有家庭医学系，而其余 4 所则尚未设立。共有 116 名家庭医学教师，年龄在 33 至 69 岁之间。其中大多数为男性（=85，73.3％），平均年龄为 43.3 岁。大多数教师拥有硕士学位（=49，42.2％），是学术讲师（=49，42.2％），位于台湾北部（=79，68.1％），并专门从事老年医学和老年病学（=55，47.4％）和姑息治疗（=53，45.7％）。此外，大多数医学院的家庭医学教师都是兼职教师（=90，77.6％），只有约四分之一（=26，22.4％）全职工作。我们的研究提供了迄今为止台湾所有医学院家庭医学教师的最全面普查。新信息可以为教育领导者、卫生政策管理者和决策者提供有关台湾医学院家庭医学系当前发展的信息。基本数据将有助于制定有效的医学院家庭医学教育计划，并改善家庭医学教师队伍的建立和发展，以帮助未来台湾的医学教育和国家卫生政策发展。
